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Primitive Corpora
Carefully composed parental diaries were recorded on child's locution. These were the first primitive corpora. -
The German Corpus
Kading used a German Corpus that consisted of over 11 million words to collate the frequency distribution of letter and sequences of letter in German. -
Corpus and FLP
Fries and Traver are linguists who used corpus data in research on Foreign Language Pedagogy. -
Corpus and Linguistics
Corpus Linguistics is know as a field of Linguistics. -
Corpus Abandonment
Corpus Linguistics was largely abandoned due to a large criticism, although it never totally died. -
225 Errors
Chomsky makes comments on a list that was collected by Reiger which had 225 errors. -
The SEU
Quirk planned and executed the construction of the Survey of English Usage (SEU). -
The Brown Corpus
Francis and Kucera began to work on the "Brown Corpus". A famous corpus that took over two decades to complete. -
Corpus as "pseudo-procedure"
Abercrombie summed up the corpus-based approach as being composed of "pseudo-procedures". -
Chomsky's Caution
Noam Chosmky cautioned the rejection of performance data as a source of evidence for language acquisition studies. -
The LOB Corpus
A corpus of British English was compiled at the universities of Lancaster, Oslo and Bergen, commonly abbreviated as the LOB corpus. -
The London-Lund Corpus
Jan Svartvik started to construct the London-Lund corpus with the SEU and the Brown corpus. -
Corpus Adoption
Corpus Linguistics adopted once more after abandonment. -
CL and SLP's strong link
Kennedy noted that Corpus Linguistics and Second Language Pedagogy had a strong link: vocabulary lists for foreign learners.
